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*ah, another installment of The Life of Jon. This week's sponcers are: Foamy, Exotic Chocolates, Star-Shmucks Coffeehouse, and the number green*
wow...it's early. i've been up for something like two hours...the first 30 mins were a haze of ringing cell phones (alarms, not calls), beeping alarm clocks, and snuggling. then i got up, got dressed, went with jess to work, and drove the car back to her apt. since then i've been getting up to date on all the sticky on the faire message board, reading/watching cartoons, and lounging on jess' love seat with a gurgling belly. lol
i've been doing (i think) a fairly good job of being positive about the disbandment of the revel's guild. i mean, it sucks cause i thought i'd found my homeguild...and we won't be working as such a tight nit group...but the upside is that the feeling that we were somehow segmented from the rest of cast won't be there any more. there was a sence before that the fae in the revel's guild wern't real fae, or stuff like that. now i think it's better that we of so many different character types go off into the guilds and spread the knowledge we've learned. i also think it's better this way in that each member of cast will now be able to put on/join in a stage show. i remember hearing (in the rumor mill) some animosity about the restriction of other guilds from being able to do stage shows. like the wench's singing show was nixed because they were in the rogues and not the revel's. so all in all i think this move will end up better for the cast as a whole, even though it's the end of something that was a lot of fun (all be it frustrating at times) for those of us in the guild. but i think the thing that makes it easier to remain positive is that even though they can remove the guild and modify the ways in which we interact/associate with the guild structure, they can't remove the comrhadary that has grown in all of us.
ok, enough with the faire shpliel, and on to more important matters...
has anyone else seen the new foamy cartoon? omg it's hilarious! the hilarity is such that i cannot talk about it...you must see it! www.illwillpress.com if you've not been there afore, look for the picture in the center of the screen that says Exotic Chocolates underneath it. it's funny and hilarious! haha
i hope everyone is having a good holiday season. i've had a busy, but great, one thus far. i went home on Xmas eve, spent Xmas with my aunt's family and a few others from my mom's side of the family. we played dominoes almost the whole time we were there, when we weren't opening presents or eating dinner that is. my 2nd cousin T.J., who is actually the 2nd oldest in the generation below me, recently proposed to his girlfriend Chelsea. she's really nice and will fit in fairly well with my aunt's family.
my mom's side is huge. my mom has 3 siblings and all 4 of them have at least 2 kids, sometimes 3. each of those kids with two exceptions, me and my brother tim, are married, tim being engaged is narrowing that gap. both my aunt diane's kids have two kids of their own, and now one of them is even getting married himself. and before me even! he's a year younger than me and he passed both his older brother and the youngest in the next generation up!
my uncle richard's 3 daughters are all married, and i'm pretty sure that all three of them have kids of their own...they don't communicate that well with the rest of the family lol.
my uncle neal's oldest son has two little kids and his younger son has one of his own as well.
the only one of my mom's generation that doesn't have grandkids is my mom! lol. charity and chuck (my sis and bro-in-law) have yet to have kids of their own. but then their life isn't really at a point where they want to have kids yet. they're still out in s. korea and enjoying life out there apparently. she's a faculty member at the univ of pheonix campus on the military base out there. so they are doing really well, but i think the whole kids issue is on hold until they get back to the states (whenever they decide to that is. lol)
so yeah...it's a clan. each of the 4 families battles over my grandma (and her estate, but we won't get into that) as well as battling each other with words. my mom is pretty much the intermediary between her two brothers and her sister. the three of them can't seem to just resign themselves to being family. so my mom from time to time has to work between them to keep relative peace...it's sad really.
you know, i rarely get to talk about my family. at least my mom's side anyway. my dad's side is easy. they're mellow and german. (basically they are laid back, easy going, stubborn to change, good hearted, neighborly folk) i tend to relate more to dad's side than mom's. tim tends to relate more to mom's side than dad's. charity floats off on her own and relates to either side about as well, but has some reluctance to mom's because they're judgemental (at least my grandma and aunt diane are anyway).
anyway...
then the day after Xmas my parents and i drove up to michigan to visit my brother and his fiance. that was a good time. i really like spending time with my brother these days. we always fought when we were kids (before he went to college) and then he was gone for so long because he would rarely come home while he was in his first few years of college. since he graduated we havn't really fought that much (although he lives in michigan so it's not really that easy to fight. lol) and our relationship has gotten alot better, which has been really good. i miss charity though. i don't get to see her but once in a blue moon. i did get to see her when my parent's and i went to arizona back in august. that was cool. it really sucks being so spread out from my siblings though. a part of me wishes we wern't so distant (physicaly). i try to talk to them as much as i can, but i'm really bad about keeping up emails and i've been so busy with college that i don't always have time to talk to them over IM, and we're not always on at the same times either...but the good part is that we don't have the same problems that my mom's siblings have...much to my comfort.
i kinda want to go get some sleep, but i find myself strangely awake at this point. although i did sleep most of the late morning/afternoon away yesterday...so i'm sure that is keeping me awake.
well, i think i'm gonna go play Gun now. it's such an awesome game. hope to see most of you (the one's in faire at least) on the 7th. happy new year everyone, and i hope to see each of you or talk to each of you soon. :)
*ogre hugs to all*
wow...it's early. i've been up for something like two hours...the first 30 mins were a haze of ringing cell phones (alarms, not calls), beeping alarm clocks, and snuggling. then i got up, got dressed, went with jess to work, and drove the car back to her apt. since then i've been getting up to date on all the sticky on the faire message board, reading/watching cartoons, and lounging on jess' love seat with a gurgling belly. lol
i've been doing (i think) a fairly good job of being positive about the disbandment of the revel's guild. i mean, it sucks cause i thought i'd found my homeguild...and we won't be working as such a tight nit group...but the upside is that the feeling that we were somehow segmented from the rest of cast won't be there any more. there was a sence before that the fae in the revel's guild wern't real fae, or stuff like that. now i think it's better that we of so many different character types go off into the guilds and spread the knowledge we've learned. i also think it's better this way in that each member of cast will now be able to put on/join in a stage show. i remember hearing (in the rumor mill) some animosity about the restriction of other guilds from being able to do stage shows. like the wench's singing show was nixed because they were in the rogues and not the revel's. so all in all i think this move will end up better for the cast as a whole, even though it's the end of something that was a lot of fun (all be it frustrating at times) for those of us in the guild. but i think the thing that makes it easier to remain positive is that even though they can remove the guild and modify the ways in which we interact/associate with the guild structure, they can't remove the comrhadary that has grown in all of us.
ok, enough with the faire shpliel, and on to more important matters...
has anyone else seen the new foamy cartoon? omg it's hilarious! the hilarity is such that i cannot talk about it...you must see it! www.illwillpress.com if you've not been there afore, look for the picture in the center of the screen that says Exotic Chocolates underneath it. it's funny and hilarious! haha
i hope everyone is having a good holiday season. i've had a busy, but great, one thus far. i went home on Xmas eve, spent Xmas with my aunt's family and a few others from my mom's side of the family. we played dominoes almost the whole time we were there, when we weren't opening presents or eating dinner that is. my 2nd cousin T.J., who is actually the 2nd oldest in the generation below me, recently proposed to his girlfriend Chelsea. she's really nice and will fit in fairly well with my aunt's family.
my mom's side is huge. my mom has 3 siblings and all 4 of them have at least 2 kids, sometimes 3. each of those kids with two exceptions, me and my brother tim, are married, tim being engaged is narrowing that gap. both my aunt diane's kids have two kids of their own, and now one of them is even getting married himself. and before me even! he's a year younger than me and he passed both his older brother and the youngest in the next generation up!
my uncle richard's 3 daughters are all married, and i'm pretty sure that all three of them have kids of their own...they don't communicate that well with the rest of the family lol.
my uncle neal's oldest son has two little kids and his younger son has one of his own as well.
the only one of my mom's generation that doesn't have grandkids is my mom! lol. charity and chuck (my sis and bro-in-law) have yet to have kids of their own. but then their life isn't really at a point where they want to have kids yet. they're still out in s. korea and enjoying life out there apparently. she's a faculty member at the univ of pheonix campus on the military base out there. so they are doing really well, but i think the whole kids issue is on hold until they get back to the states (whenever they decide to that is. lol)
so yeah...it's a clan. each of the 4 families battles over my grandma (and her estate, but we won't get into that) as well as battling each other with words. my mom is pretty much the intermediary between her two brothers and her sister. the three of them can't seem to just resign themselves to being family. so my mom from time to time has to work between them to keep relative peace...it's sad really.
you know, i rarely get to talk about my family. at least my mom's side anyway. my dad's side is easy. they're mellow and german. (basically they are laid back, easy going, stubborn to change, good hearted, neighborly folk) i tend to relate more to dad's side than mom's. tim tends to relate more to mom's side than dad's. charity floats off on her own and relates to either side about as well, but has some reluctance to mom's because they're judgemental (at least my grandma and aunt diane are anyway).
anyway...
then the day after Xmas my parents and i drove up to michigan to visit my brother and his fiance. that was a good time. i really like spending time with my brother these days. we always fought when we were kids (before he went to college) and then he was gone for so long because he would rarely come home while he was in his first few years of college. since he graduated we havn't really fought that much (although he lives in michigan so it's not really that easy to fight. lol) and our relationship has gotten alot better, which has been really good. i miss charity though. i don't get to see her but once in a blue moon. i did get to see her when my parent's and i went to arizona back in august. that was cool. it really sucks being so spread out from my siblings though. a part of me wishes we wern't so distant (physicaly). i try to talk to them as much as i can, but i'm really bad about keeping up emails and i've been so busy with college that i don't always have time to talk to them over IM, and we're not always on at the same times either...but the good part is that we don't have the same problems that my mom's siblings have...much to my comfort.
i kinda want to go get some sleep, but i find myself strangely awake at this point. although i did sleep most of the late morning/afternoon away yesterday...so i'm sure that is keeping me awake.
well, i think i'm gonna go play Gun now. it's such an awesome game. hope to see most of you (the one's in faire at least) on the 7th. happy new year everyone, and i hope to see each of you or talk to each of you soon. :)
*ogre hugs to all*